Rolls-Royce Holdings
British multinational aerospace and defence company
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| 2025 | Rolls-Royce planned to develop two UltraFan versions by 2028: the UltraFan 30 for single-aisles and the UltraFan 80 for widebodies, with plans for flight tests before 2030. |
| February 11 2025 | At the close of London trading, Rolls-Royce Holdings had a market capitalisation of £52.66bn, positioning itself as the 11th-largest company on the London Stock Exchange. |
| 2024 | At the Farnborough Air Show, Rolls-Royce announced upgrades to Trent engines, with some enhancements drawing from the UltraFan technology demonstrator project. |
| 2024 | Updated cost projections for the SMR were estimated to be between £2 billion and £3 billion. |
| July 2024 | Rolls-Royce completed its first engine run on the new test bed 80, marking a milestone in the facility's operational capabilities. |
| 2023 | Entered into a £3.52 million funding agreement with the UK Space Agency to develop a nuclear reactor for lunar space missions. |
| November 2023 | The UltraFan demonstrator achieved at least its maximum power in tests, exceeding the design brief of 80,000lbf and accumulated over 70 hours of run-time. |
| October 2023 | Rolls-Royce announced plans to cut 2,500 jobs, representing 6% of its total workforce. |
| May 2023 | First run of a demonstrator with a 14:1 bypass ratio, carbon-titanium fan blades, an Advance3 core, and a new combustor, showing 10% better fuel efficiency than the Trent XWB. |
| March 2023 | Rolls-Royce announced Rolls-Royce Submarines Limited will provide nuclear reactors for the SSN-AUKUS submarines for the Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy, with plans to double the Derby site and create 1,170 jobs. |
| January 2023 | Launched the HEAVEN R&D programme, partly funded by the EU's Clean Aviation scheme with up to €70 million allocated by 2029. |
| January 2023 | Tufan Erginbilgic becomes Chief Executive of Rolls-Royce Holdings, replacing Warren East |
| March 2022 | Rolls-Royce transferred the power gearbox, which had been tested to a specific capability, from Dahlewitz to its UK site for assembly. |
| November 2021 | Rolls-Royce completed the sale of its civil nuclear instrumentation and control business to Framatome, a transaction involving over 550 employees. |
| October 2021 | Anita Frew appointed as Chairman of Rolls-Royce Holdings, succeeding Sir Ian Davis |
| February 2021 | Rolls-Royce began discussions about a potential two-week operational shutdown of its civil aerospace unit due to COVID-19 restrictions. |
| 2020 | Rolls-Royce set the original target cost for a 470 MWe SMR unit at £1.8 billion for the fifth unit built, with a cost of around £3.8 million per MWe. |
| 2020 | Initiated research and development in business jet market niches with a $2 billion annual investment, targeting a predicted market of 8,500 to 9,000 aircraft over the decade. |
| December 2020 | Rolls-Royce announced plans to sell foreign parts of its civil nuclear instrumentation and control business to Framatome as part of its post-COVID recovery strategy. |
| November 2020 | Rolls-Royce announced plans to build up to 16 Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) nuclear plants across the UK, continuing its nuclear division operations. |
| June 2020 | Test bed 80 was scheduled to be commissioned by mid-2020, representing a significant investment in engine testing infrastructure. |
| May 2020 | Company announced plans to cut 20% of its global workforce (approximately 9,000 staff) due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with around 3,000 job losses expected in the UK. |
| February 2020 | Rolls-Royce began manufacturing carbon fibre fan blades in Bristol, UK, with potential weight savings on a twinjet. |
| 2019 | Rolls-Royce delivered 510 Trent powerplants and installed 5,029 large engines, with 32% being Trent 700 models. |
| November 2019 | Rolls-Royce aimed to reduce aircraft-on-ground to below ten by mid-2020, with a delayed HP turbine design modification planned for the first half of 2021. |
| September 2019 | Rolls-Royce agreed to sell its civil nuclear services businesses in the U.S., Canada, Mondragon France, and Gateshead UK to Westinghouse Electric Company for an undisclosed sum, involving businesses with $70 million revenue and 500 employees. |
| August 10 2019 | A Norwegian Long Haul Boeing 787-8 experienced an engine failure while departing Rome. The crew successfully performed an emergency landing, with a turbine blade breaking and potentially causing other blade disintegrations. Damage was sustained to the plane's left wing, horizontal stabiliser, fuselage, and main landing gear tyres, with engine parts falling over urban areas. |
| June 2019 | The Trent family of engines completed over 125 million operational hours, solidifying Rolls-Royce's position as the second-largest supplier of large civil turbofans globally. |
| June 2019 | At the Paris Air Show, Rolls-Royce announced the acquisition of Siemens' electric propulsion branch, to be completed in late 2019. |
| February 2019 | Introduction of the UltraFan was delayed until 2027, with plans to re-engine current aircraft after full-scale ground tests in 2021. |
| January 2019 | The Advance3 engine had run over 100 hours during testing. |
| January 2019 | A redesigned IP compressor blade design was installed on the Package C Trent 1000 following EASA and FAA approval. |
| 2018 | Rolls-Royce ground tested its Advanced Low-Pressure System (ALPS) demonstrator, using a Trent 1000 engine fitted with composite fan blades and case, which included bird strike trials. |
| 2018 | Introduced the Trent 7000 variant for the Airbus A330neo (new engine option) aircraft. |
| 2018 | Construction of the test bed 80 facility commenced, featuring advanced testing capabilities for high-thrust engines. |
| 2018 | Completed a major investment and development cycle, launching six new civil engines including the Trent XWB and Pearl 15 for business aviation, securing orders for 2,700 engines for wide-body aircraft and business jets. |
| 2018 | Ranked as the world's 16th largest defence contractor based on defence revenues, highlighting the company's significant presence in the defence industry. |
| 2018 | Out of 1277 Boeing 787 orders, 420 (approximately 33%) selected the Trent 1000 engine. |
| December 20 2018 | Cleared for ETOPS 330 certification, demonstrating extended-range twin-engine operational performance standards. |
| November 2018 | A late demonstrator based on a Trent XWB-97 was prepared to test advanced cooled metallic components and ceramic matrix composite parts within the high temperature turbine technology (HT3) initiative. |
| November 26 2018 | First delivery of the Trent 7000 engine. |
| September 2018 | Initial fix for IP turbine corrosion was installed in over 62% of the affected fleet, with a revised base material and coating. |
| September 11 2018 | First in-flight shutdown of the Trent XWB, occurring after the fleet accumulated 2.2 million flight hours. |
| August 2018 | Rolls-Royce took a £554 million charge to address faults with Trent 1000 engines on Boeing 787 Dreamliners, committing to spend £450m on fixes in 2018, £450m in 2019, and £350m in 2020, with work to be completed by 2022. |
| July 2018 | The UltraFan configuration was frozen, with detailed design and component manufacture set to enable 2021 ground tests. |
| July 2018 | The Advance3 core successfully ran at full power. |
| July 2018 | Rolls-Royce divested its commercial marine business by selling it to Kongsberg for £500 million, marking a significant strategic restructuring of the company's portfolio. |
| July 20 2018 | Received EASA type certification as a Trent 1000 variant. |
| June 14 2018 | Company announced a major business restructuring to create three decentralized units, with plans to save £400 million annually by 2020 and an upfront restructuring cost of £500 million, potentially reducing workforce by 4,600 people. |
| April 2018 | Airbus agreed to provide aircraft integration and nacelle for flight testing, co-funded by the European Union's Clean Sky 2 research programme. |
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